Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 10:45:17 -0800 From: Aleksandr Miroslav <alexmiroslav@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: have BSD make pass all arguments to GNU make? Message-ID: <CACcSE1z44oLYaRf3x26MJvyhjtknZgAzGrJuU4djttn7c7-q1w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CACcSE1z2Jt_LRkFV59NttPAey_aB6Kmn3cogmmTn4W9FacS03g@mail.gmail.com> References: <CACcSE1z2Jt_LRkFV59NttPAey_aB6Kmn3cogmmTn4W9FacS03g@mail.gmail.com>
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GMail munged my highlighting . I meant bar $* and gmake $* in those two examples. On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Aleksandr Miroslav <alexmiroslav@gmail.com> wrote: > In shell, if I call a script "foo", i can pass all the arguments to a > script "bar" like this: > > > *bar $** > > I would like to do something similar with make. > > If I call BSD make with some target, I'd like to rerun it on a > GnuMakefile, something like this: > > > *gmake $** > > Obviously this doesn't work because (I think) make doesn't have the notion > of $*. > > But is something like this possible? > > (I'd rather not alias make to gmake, in case you were wondering, my system > uses both makes in various places.) >
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